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MIAMI (AP) — Florida Sen. Marco Rubio was among the Republican Party's biggest stars when he burst onto the national stage in the tea party wave of 2010. The Cuban-American's desire to become the nation's first Hispanic president, and his past support for a forgiving immigration policy, have failed to excite conservative primary voters who instead have flocked to Donald Trump's nativist politics. Rubio is the decided underdog to the billionaire businessman in Tuesday's do-or-die home-state contest. Читать дальше...

The second of two convicts who escaped from a fortified prison transport van in New Mexico was captured Saturday, Albuquerque police said. Officers located Lionel Clah in a northeastern area of the city, said police spokesman Simon Drobik. Clah’s capture came less than a day after the other inmate, convicted murderer Joseph Cruz, was also found in Albuquerque. Medical Examiner-Coroner Mark Fajardo will return to his former job as chief forensic pathologist in nearby Riverside County. The coroner’s office is one of the busiest in the nation... Читать дальше...

An avalanche struck in the Italian Alps on Saturday, killing six backcountry skiers as others looked on in horror as a swath of snow hundreds of yards wide cascaded down. Helicopters ferried survivors and victims back to the valley floor from the avalanche site, located just below Monte Nevoso’s 11,017-foot peak. The Turkish military carried out air strikes this week against Kurdish rebel targets across the border in northern Iraq, killing at least 67 militants, Turkey’s state-run news agency reported Saturday. Читать дальше...

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SAO PAULO — Brazilians took to the streets on Sunday for a day of nationwide protests against embattled President Dilma Rousseff that are widely seen as a key test of her ability to weather the political and economic crises lashing the country. The president faces impeachment proceedings over alleged fiscal mismanagement with the country in the throes of the worst recession in decades and amid a sprawling investigation into corruption at the state-run oil giant Petrobras. Organizers estimated that... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON — Two U.S. senators with sway over federal spending have dealt a crippling bipartisan blow to the Pentagon’s troubled $2.7 billion program to use radar-carrying blimps to search for enemy missiles. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Richard Durbin, D-Ill., who holds the Democrats’ No. 2 leadership position in the Senate, have refused a request by the Obama administration to shift $27.2 million to the program to keep it alive. The request for the... Читать дальше...

LE BOURGET, France — Aviation agencies around the world should draw up new rules requiring medical workers to warn authorities when a pilot’s mental health could threaten public safety, French investigators recommended Sunday after a yearlong probe into the Germanwings plane crash. The French investigation found that Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, who had been treated for depression in the past, had consulted with dozens of doctors in the weeks before he deliberately crashed a jet into the... Читать дальше...

A week after saying that it would be “illegitimate” and “wrong” for party insiders at the Republican National Convention to nominate a presidential candidate against the wishes of most voters, Ted Cruz said Sunday that it would be fine if the convention chose between him and front-runner Donald Trump as long neither had achieved the 1,237 delegates needed to secure the nomination on first ballot. Yet he seemed to soften ahead of Tuesday’s five nominating contests in which, for the first time, all... Читать дальше...

The Obama administration is close to naming a replacement for Justice Antonin Scalia, who died last month and would have turned 80 on Friday. If history is a guide, the White House will take elaborate precautions to make sure the choice for the lifetime seat is kept under wraps until the president is ready to reveal it. “I checked into a hotel downtown, and they said that I ... should go to a particular corner at a particular time in the morning and wait for a Chrysler 300 to pull up, flash its headlights a couple of times... Читать дальше...

CLEVELAND (AP) — A man arrested Saturday after he tried to get on the stage at a Donald Trump campaign rally in Ohio reportedly told police he planned to grab the microphone and yell that Trump is a racist but didn't intend to hurt anyone. The newspaper said DiMassimo vaulted over waist-high metal railings, muscled past security guards and nearly got on the stage at the end of Trump's rally before Secret Service agents tackled and handcuffed him.

Water from the rain-swollen Sacramento River is spilling over a 33.5-foot-high concrete wall and into a bypass built to divert flood water. The bypass is an expanse of farmland and natural habitat that stretches from Sacramento to Davis and was created a century ago. A storm dumping rain in much of Northern California is expected to weaken as it moves south, though the southern part of the state could see scattered showers or drizzle.

MILWAUKEE (AP) — One of two teenage girls accused of trying to kill a classmate near Milwaukee to appease the online fictional character Slender Man is being treated at a state mental hospital. The two girls are charged with attempted first-degree intentional homicide in the May 2014 attack on Payton Leutner.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Former Oklahoma football coach Barry Switzer admired one quality in Donnie Duncan above the many great ones his former assistant often displayed. Duncan, a former Oklahoma athletic director, Big 12 administrator and Iowa State football coach, died Saturday at the age of 75. Duncan's 1980 and 1981 Cyclone squads were ranked, and the 1981 Cyclones began 5-1-1 and were ranked as high as No. 11 in The Associated Press poll. Duncan was executive director of the Sun Bowl and Gator Bowl before returning to Oklahoma... Читать дальше...

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilians took to the streets on Sunday for a day of nationwide protests against embattled President Dilma Rousseff that are widely seen as a key test of her ability to weather the political and economic crises lashing the country. The president faces impeachment proceedings over alleged fiscal mismanagement with the country in the throes of the worst recession in decades and amid a sprawling investigation into corruption at the state-run oil giant Petrobras. Observers say a big... Читать дальше...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas fire officials say one person has died and several people have been displaced by a fire in an apartment complex. Clark County Fire Department spokesman Jeff Buchanan says several fire engines responded to the blaze around 8:45 a.m. Sunday on Karen Avenue near Mountain Vista Street.

COLLINSVILLE, Ill. (AP) — Police are investigating the death of a man whose body was found in the Mississippi River, near Venice, Illinois. Authorities are requesting help identifying the man who had tattoos on his chest reading "Zachary" and "Family Forever." The body was found Saturday and removed from the river by the Madison Fire Department. The body was taken to the Madison County Morgue. The death is being investigated by the Illinois State Police and the Venice Police Department. Anyone with... Читать дальше...

Police had a warrant for 30-year-old Alberto Dejesus-Rosado for unrelated assault charges and attempted to take him into custody around 7 p.m. Saturday. Officers say they found Dejesus-Rosado in possession of powder and crack cocaine packaged for sale.

Turkey's pro-Kurdish party has issued a statement condemning the attack in central Ankara, which has killed at least 27 people and wounded 75 others. No one has claimed the attack, although Kurdish militants and the Islamic State group have carried out bombings in the city recently. The statement was significant because the party is frequently accused of being the armed wing of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK — an accusation it denies.

(AP) — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump returned to Illinois on Sunday for a stump speech at an airplane hangar in Bloomington before a far more receptive and calmer audience than the Chicago rally that was canceled Friday night. A Bloomington police spokesman said that none of those ejected from the 45-minute speech, nor anyone among the several small clusters of protesters gathered outside the Central Illinois Regional Airport, were arrested. Illinois State Police and the Chicago... Читать дальше...

(AP) — One of two former Black Panthers convicted in the 1970 bombing death of an Omaha police officer has died in prison. The pair maintained their innocence and argued they were targeted by an FBI program that undermined radical political groups. The Nebraska Supreme Court ruled on an appeal that involved the 911 tape, and it decided in 1983 that the recording wasn't enough to create reasonable doubt about Rice's guilt.

PARIS (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called for the resumption of Syria peace talks Monday in Geneva following a meeting with France's new foreign minister and other senior European diplomats. Government forces advanced on the ancient city of Palmyra, which is held by the Islamic State group, while continuing to clash with jihadists and rebels in other parts of the country Sunday. Al-Qaeda militants swept through a rebel-held town in northern Syria, arresting U.S.-backed fighters and... Читать дальше...

Chi Chi, a golden retriever mix, hit the ground walking but not quite running Saturday at her new home in Phoenix. The 2-year-old dog has spent the two months in a veterinary clinic in Seoul learning how to live with prosthetic paws. Chi Chi was shepherded over by Los Angeles-based Animal Rescue, Media & Education, or ARME. Ju Yu, who heads an animal rescue group in South Korea, said the dog was found among the garbage outside a meat market in the countryside. The rescuers whisked the dog... Читать дальше...

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Jihad monitoring group says al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb claims Ivory Coast beach attack.

Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu convened an emergency security meeting after the bombing, which also shattered the windows of shops that line Kizilay square. The bombing is the third in the city in five months and comes as Turkey is faced with an array of issues, including renewed fighting with the Kurdish rebels, threats from the Islamic State group and a Syrian refugee crisis. A Kurdish militant group which is an offshoot of the outlawed Kurdish rebel group, the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, claimed responsibility for the Feb. Читать дальше...

Giants ace Madison Bumgarner will miss up to two starts with a pair of injuries that he insists are minor, adding he believes he will be able to raise his pitch count enough by the end of spring training to make his scheduled Opening Day start in Milwaukee. Bumgarner was scratched from his Cactus League start against the Padres on Sunday. Once the staff decided to pull Bumgarner from the rotation, they gave him a cortisone shot in the foot Saturday to calm that injury. The 26-year-old left-hander... Читать дальше...